That the country is all very nice—

But I’d much rather mix with my kind.

Yes; to-day—if I meet with a train—

I will fly from these hills and these dells;

And to-night I will sleep once again

(Happy thought!) within sound of Bow Bells.

From Carols of Cockayne, by Henry S. Leigh. London, Chatto and Windus, 1874.

LORD LYTTLETON.

A Burlesque Ode by Tobias Smollett.